''O 10'' was a patrol

submarines A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely o ...

of the

Royal Netherlands Navy The Royal Netherlands Navy ( nl, Koninklijke Marine, links=no) is the naval force of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. During the 17th century, the navy of the Dutch Republic (1581–1795) was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world an ...

. The ship was built by ''Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij'' shipyard in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

Service history

The submarine was ordered on 9 August 1921 and laid down in Amsterdam at the shipyard of ''Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij'' on 24 December 1923. The launch took place on 30 July 1925. On 1 September 1926 the ship was commissioned in the Dutch navy. In 1927 ''O 10'', , , , , and made a visit to

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. In 1928 ''O 10'', ''Hertog Hendrik'', ''Z 5'', ''Z 6'' and ''Z 7'' made a trip to the

North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...

and visited

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. In 1929 ''O 10'', , , ''Z 5'', ''Z 6'', made a trip to the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...

for exercises. The next year on 30 July 1930 ''O 9'', ''O 10'', ''Jacob van Heemskerck'' and visited

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

. In 1931 ''O 10'', ''O 9'', , ''Jacob van Heemskerck'', ''Z 7'', ''Z 8'', made again a trip to the

for exercises. She sailed for the Baltics again in 1936 with her sisters ''O 9'', ''O 11'', ''Hertog Hendrik'' and ''Z 5''. In 1939 ''O 10'' together with her sisters ''O 9'', ''O 11'' where attached to the coastal division. They acted as the offensive part of Dutch coastal defense. From 9 to 11 May 1940 she and ''O 9'' were on patrol off the coast of the Netherlands. During the patrol ''O 9'' was attacked by German military airplanes. On 12 May 1940 she, ''O 9'' and a tugboat fled to the

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where they arrived on 15 May 1940. During the war she patrolled the

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Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

and the

Bay of Biscay The Bay of Biscay (), known in Spain as the Gulf of Biscay ( es, Golfo de Vizcaya, eu, Bizkaiko Golkoa), and in France and some border regions as the Gulf of Gascony (french: Golfe de Gascogne, oc, Golf de Gasconha, br, Pleg-mor Gwaskogn), ...

. From July to August 1940 ''O 10'' was attached to the 7th Training Flotilla in

Rothesay Rothesay ( ; gd, Baile Bhòid ) is the principal town on the Isle of Bute, in the council area of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies along the coast of the Firth of Clyde. It can be reached by ferry from Wemyss Bay, which offers an onward rail ...

and used as an ASDIC piggy boat. She was transferred to the 9th Flotilla in

Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...

where she served from 30 August 1940 to July 1944. On 11 October 1944 ''O 10'' was decommissioned and in September 1946, stricken. October 1946 she was sold for scrapping.

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